World Wide Web source code is latest NFT for sale
Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web is the latest non-fungible token (NFT) to go up for sale.
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Software
Mouse movements reveal your behavior
In two recently published research papers, computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg and international partners show how mouse movements can be used to gain additional knowledge about the user behavior. While ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Robotics
Underwater robot offers new insight into mid-ocean 'twilight zone'
An innovative underwater robot known as Mesobot is providing researchers with deeper insight into the vast mid-ocean region known as the "twilight zone." Capable of tracking and recording high-resolution images of slow-moving ...
Jun 17, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Let's talk about the elephant in the data
You would not be surprised to see an elephant in the savanna or a plate in your kitchen. Based on your prior experiences and knowledge, you know that is where elephants and plates are often to be found. If you saw a mysterious ...
Jun 3, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Trust the machine—it knows what it is doing
Machine learning, when used in climate science builds an actual understanding of the climate system, according to a study published in the journal Chaos by Manuel Santos Gutiérrez and Valerio Lucarini, University of Reading, ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Machine learning is changing culture: This text-altering tool shows how
Most of us benefit every day from the fact computers can now "understand" us when we speak or write. Yet few of us have paused to consider the potentially damaging ways this same technology may be shaping our culture.
Jun 1, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Supplying rural areas with electricity sustainably
Germany is supposed to become climate-neutral by 2045. The federal govern-ment's new climate protection law stipulates this. Greenhouse gas emissions are supposed to drop at 65 percent below their 1990 values by the year ...
Jun 1, 2021
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'The future of this planet is at stake,' new report pressures Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to battle climate lies
The nation's leading social media companies have pulled out the stops to shut down conspiracy theories, hoaxes and falsehoods about COVID and vaccines, QAnon and the 2020 election, but they are far less aggressive when it ...
May 27, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Scientific software: Quality not always good
Computational tools are indispensable in almost all scientific disciplines. Especially in cases where large amounts of research data are generated and need to be quickly processed, reliable, carefully developed software is ...
May 25, 2021
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Robotics
How a slender, snake-like robot could give doctors new ways to save lives
You might call it "zoobotics." Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at U of T Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimeters in diameter, ...
May 12, 2021
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